In light of Tuesday's vulgar chant directed at Matt Haarms, the Boilermakers coach and former player says he'd like to see "IU sucks" go, as well.

In the process of helping a colleague write an article about vulgar chants in college sports, I asked Matt Painter today if such behavior is worse now than when he played at Purdue.

He again said he did not hear the "(expletive) you Haarms" chant at Indiana on Tuesday, though he could hear it when re-watching the game.

After the game, Painter had said such chants are part of competitive sports. I asked today if he felt there was a difference between more general chants and ones directed at a specific player.

Here is the resulting exchange:

"It's an easy answer for me, because that was something that happened during the course of a game and it goes towards an individual and it shouldn’t have happened and it does. But we do something towards them and a chant that’s inappropriate too, so how can we be mad? You know what I mean? How can we get upset at them? We’ve got to clean up our own backyard before we can point a finger.

Painter: "I am not an ‘IU’ sucks fan. It’s just something that, when I’m 20 years old, I probably would be. When you get older and you grow through things and you’re coaching a team and you’re trying to set an example, it’s not something you want to be said during a game, especially when you have recruits in and you have families in and you try to sell what a classy place Purdue is. When you do that, it’s hard."

Purdue and IU play a protected home-and-home series now in the Big Ten Conference's 20-game schedule. Expect this topic to come up again when Haarms and the Boilermakers are set to return to Assembly Hall next season.